Tim Pollington AMIMA

Visceral leishmaniasis spatial modelling

I joined the MathSys CDT MSc/PhD programme in September 2015 and in September 2016 began a PhD in infectious disease modelling with supervisors Déirdre Hollingsworth & Lloyd Chapman. My MSc summer project spatially modelled visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Fulbaria, Bangladesh during 2002-10. My PhD will expand on this further to also model the epidemic cycles of VL in the Indian subcontinent (also presented as a poster at the NGCM summer academy in June 2016). In January 2017 I was awarded a Newton Bhabha PhD placement grant to fund a four-month visit to an Indian research institution from August - November 2017 under the guidance of Dr N Siddiqui. I am particularly keen to work with researchers from the Indian subcontinent, so please do get in touch.

October 2014: Screening & data extraction phases of a systematic review of S.pneumoniae serotype carriage globally, in parallel with my colleague, Riya Moodley. This study, managed by Olivier Le Polain at LSHTM and with involvement from other CMMID members, will record serotype prevalence by geographic region. Combined with invasive pneumococcal disease estimates, it will estimate the impact of polysaccharide conjugate vaccines.